No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Quitting is leading too.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.